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Are work at home jobs legit?

Updated: 10/10/2023
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There are few legit work at home opportunities, like freelance sites, which don't ask you to pay a certain amount of money to get a job. All you need to do is sign-up, create a profile, and bid on jobs.

If you're asking if most "work-at-home" opportunities are anywhere near as good as the ads offering them make them out to be... well, to put it bluntly, no. Even in the ones which aren't outright scams, it's much more difficult to succeed than the ads make it sound. Some of them give high gross income figures, but neglect to mention that your expenses will be high as well (the "stuffing envelopes" kind are notorious for this). Others require you to risk a significant amount of your own money on a chancy proposition.


In general, here's a couple of rules of thumb: if the work sounds easy ... that is, it doesn't require any particular innate talent or previous training ... then it's a scam. If the work does require special training and the company that's touting the opportunity provides that training for a fee, it's a scam.


Here are a couple of examples to give you an idea:


Stuffing envelopes: the scam here is that usually, you pay a "materials fee" and find out that you're not actually stuffing any envelopes. What the instructions you get for your "materials fee" tell you to do instead is take out classified ads offering envelope stuffing jobs. Any suckers that respond, you ask for a materials fee and then send them the same information. Seriously. Nobody needs envelopes stuffed. If they do, they hire some schmuck for minimum wage to come into their office and do it (or, more likely, they contract it out to someone who specializes in this and has automatic folding and stuffing machines that can do these at a rate of thousands per hour... I have a friend who runs a direct mail company, and you should SEE his envelope printer; it has multiple print heads and prints the addresses on envelopes as they run past on a conveyor belt at several per second). What no one ever does is pay someone $5.00 per envelope, like you see in the ads, because that's clearly insane.


Making handicrafts: you have to buy supplies from the company. After you've assembled them into jewelry or whatever geegaws they're selling, you'll be told your work "does not meet quality standards" and told that they won't buy the assembled goods, so you're out the money for supplies with no income to show for it (instead you've got a bunch of crap no one wants; I guess you could give them out as Christmas presents or something).


Medical billing: you need training ... which the company will provide (for a fee) and/or special software, which the company will provide (for a fee). But then you're all set, right? Wrong. Doctors and clinics don't hire out their billing to starry-eyed schlubs who just started; they either do it in-house or go with some company (probably run by a CPA, who started it as an adjunct to his existing CPA business) that's been doing it for 20 years. And the software almost certainly doesn't support the way the doctor/clinic wants the billing done anyway.



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Home Job Placement is definitely NOT legit. Our full staff of Customer Support Specialist are available to send you running in circles while trying not to answer any questions that you may have. We can be reached by phone or email and we are not happy to help you! Please hesitate to contact us. Our contact information is available on our web page.

I use to work for the home job placement customer support care center! trust me the site is not legit you will spend more time wasting your time than anything else! basically you are given the run around and pretty much pushed to want a refund which is about the easiest part of the job! and the most common one too! Please do not fall for the "Jennifer Johnson" or "Elizabeth Jackson" scam! also on career builders they are listed as working for fortune 500 companies! JOKE! do not fall into this nonsense please!

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